- From: Loretta Guarino Reid <lorettaguarino@google.com>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 07:39:16 -0700
- To: "Gez Lemon" <gez.lemon@gmail.com>
- Cc: "Gregory J. Rosmaita" <oedipus@hicom.net>, jbrewer@w3.org, wai-xtech@w3.org, jimallan@tsbvi.edu, gv@trace.wisc.edu, lguarino@adobe.com
Gez, is the HTML Working Group only interested in HTML examples? I've come across complex tables of this sort in PDF. Loretta On 6/6/07, Gez Lemon <gez.lemon@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Gregory, > > On 06/06/07, Gregory J. Rosmaita <oedipus@hicom.net> wrote: > > > > aloha, one and all! > > > > the HTML Working Group is in search of complex table examples, with and > > without the accessibility features defined for TABLE in HTML4/XHTML1, > > and the mother of all tables i know of is located at: > > > > http://www.m-w.com/mw/table/indoeuro.htm > > This table will be useful to the HTML working group (in its current > form, marked up correctly with just scope, marked up correctly with > just the headers attribute, and marked up correctly with both scope > and the headers attribute), but they're also after irregular tables, > where the headers for a particular data cell aren't necessarily in the > same row or column. Although this table is complex in that there are > multiple layers of headers, they're easily resolved using the scope > attribute. They need examples that can't be resolved with scope, and > requires the headers attribute to unambiguously associate headers with > data cells. They're aware that the headers attribute is better > supported by assistive technology than scope, but aren't convinced > that there is a need for the attribute, as every example they've seen > would work with just the scope attribute. > > Best regards, > > Gez > > -- > _____________________________ > Supplement your vitamins > http://juicystudio.com > >
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